Zeus? I didn’t know that name, at least, I hadn’t heard it before but I would make a note to remember it and tell the others. Maybe we had a first target- although how you find someone you’ve never heard of I don’t really know. This is where we need to train, to get better, to be better than those who came before us. I pushed the thoughts away for now, storing them within the back of my white and silver head for later use. I would remember that name, keep it, just in case I ever met this wolf or any of my group ever found him. Why would he bother to target Angels? There were too many, spread too far and even if he was targeting them he didn’t seem to be all that good at it- why attack Sulan? I’d heard about that, of course, I never really knew him though. I’d seen him around in Diveen, Aunt Isola and Uncle Kane always spoke of him and highly too, how had he been so overcome? I let the violet of my gaze drift to Micteca then. I was young I suppose, young and stubborn and headstrong and all the things that would one day make me the King that I was- though for now were hardly more then irritable personality traits of a child wanting to much too soon, or at least, knowing what I wanted far sooner than most children surely do. Patience was not yet in my vocabulary, or at least, not the sort of patience required to actually allow my body the time it would need to grow and develop into a more adult form. I wanted to do things now, I was ready now and I was being held back by a somewhat ungainly form and developing limbs. For all that I was and all that I would be- there were still things to be learned, my next words surely proof of that.

“Why should we avoid him? Why not find him? We still need training I know, but my group and I could find him and be rid of him- punish him for hurting my family and Isola’s pack mates. Do you know where to find him?”

I felt the violet of my gaze narrow slightly on her. I didn’t want to go out and kill him, I mean….I don’t think I do. I’m not sure what this feeling is, I only know I don’t like it. It’s a heat of sorts, one that burns in all my limbs, an anger that someone would target so many wolves like that. Angels? Why target Angels? I shook the thoughts from my head once more, waiting for her answer all the same. If she knew where this Zeus was then maybe he would be our first target. One day I would look back and remember this feeling and this moment- the first time I think I ever really wanted to hurt someone and I don’t mean with words. She asked further about my group then, my head nodding, mind turned to other things.

“There are five, including me, two of us are already trained assassins, Heyel taught me some things but the last two I think- don’t have assassin training at all- one is a very skilled warrior though and the last….well, he’s pretty good looking. He could dazzle I suppose.”

I grinned then, at the thought of my brother Orfiel and his red-coloured coat. Strictly speaking the entire group was pretty good looking, I mean, between me, Guard, Fiel, Achilles and Calliel- well, what better looking group of wolves ever existed? I let my tail wave slightly, looking to Micteca once more. Maybe she had a plan for our training sessions, maybe she’d tell me where to find Zeus and I could go and find him right now and make right the wrongs already done. Maybe I had an inflated opinion of my own skills- but one day…..one day, I’d make sure Moladion was run the way it was supposed to be. This was just my beginning and things were already beginning to fall into place the way I needed them. World domination isn’t actually all that hard. I don’t know why everything thinks it is. I smiled once more, the grin teasing, light, laughing at myself more then anything before my attention fell to Micteca once more.

“Yes. Together- all of us. If there is nothing more you have to add today then I will leave you to your rest. When we meet again I will introduce you to the others- though you may not…recognise us. You’ll understand. Is there anything else, Miss? Anything I should tell them?”


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The Once and Future King